- From: Geoffrey Sneddon <foolistbar@googlemail.com>
- Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 15:01:14 +0100
On 25 Jun 2007, at 13:21, Ivo Emanuel Gon?alves wrote: > According to Wikipedia, > > "AT&T is trying to sue companies such as Apple Inc. over alleged > MPEG-4 patent infringement.[1][2][3]" > > I would be fascinated to see a statement from Apple, Inc. regarding > this. Seeming they are already under risk from what they already support, what advantage do Apple get by supporting more codecs, therefore opening up themselves to further risks? > It's also quite interesting that different portions of MPEG-4, > including different sections of video and audio are licensed > separately, so what this means is that any vendor willing to support > MPEG-4 for <video> and <audio> has to locate every patent holder and > pay them. No, they don't, it all goes through MPEG-LA. > Oh, and will you look at this, Apple, Inc. holds one the patents! US > 6,134,243 [4]. So Apple gets money for every single license sold. > How nice. They are attempting to lock vendors into MPEG-4 and get > money from licenses in the process. Apple, Inc. is no better than > Microsoft. So a company which owns a patent on a standard that can bought and read at freedom is just as bad as a company which owns a patent on a standard that has absolutely no public documentation? Also, a large part of this topic has been around H.264, Apple holds no known patents affecting H.264. - Geoffrey Sneddon
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